Chapter Forty-Six: Night Attack on Cai Cheng
At this time, Zhan Wuxian was on night patrol. On the city tower, he looked in the direction of the Divine Fire Pillar, and saw countless blue light spots in the night sky, densely packed, mixed with the stars in the sky, drifting towards Cai Cheng. If you don't have good eyesight, it's extremely difficult to spot. Zhan Wuxian said: It's not good, the corpse beast is coming to sneak attack.
"The archers prepare, the archers prepare, the enemy comes to sneak attack. All archers aim at the blue light in the sky and cannot put one into the city. Zhan Wuxian shouted as he ran.
In a hurry, the soldiers defending the city were in a hurry, and some of them could not find their bows and arrows, and the scene was chaotic. In comparison, it is still the Divine Fire Soldiers, the Soul Gold Warriors, and the Corpse Beast Soldiers who are well-trained. I saw that they were in unison, put down their swords and halberds, picked up their bows and crossbows, mounted their arrows and bows, aimed at the blue light moving in the sky, and their movements were consistent, without panic, just waiting for the order.
Zhan Wuxian watched the blue light drift closer and fly within the range of the bow and arrow, and ordered loudly: "Release!" I saw ten thousand arrows on the city wall, red, white, and green lights piercing the sky, like meteors galloping, and stars and rains flying together.
The tiger eaters were hit by arrows one after another and fell from the sky, and the corpse beasts riding on them saw that the situation was not good and jumped down from above.
"Shoot those corpse beasts!" Zhan Wuxian shouted.
The defenders shot at the corpse beasts again. Some of the corpse beast pawns that jumped from the back of the tiger eater were shot through by arrows in mid-air, and some of them landed on the city wall, and they immediately fought with the defenders. Some of the fish that slipped through the net flew over the city walls and entered the city, and the corpse beasts landed in the middle of the street, quickly assembled, and attacked everything in the city, and one of them quickly attacked the city gate. The other part of the corpse beasts were in the city, passing through the streets and alleys, burning houses when they saw them, and killing people when they saw them.
Mo Wuya heard the sound of the horn in the house, and knew that the corpse beast soldiers were attacking the city, so he immediately led several capable women to organize the old and young women and children to hide in the shelter tunnel prepared in advance. When they were about to enter the tunnel, a corpse beast pawn suddenly came, and saw several women holding children and were about to enter, the corpse beast pawn roared angrily, raised his knife and slashed the woman screamed, a knife fell, and then looked closely, the woman was gone, and the corpse beast pawn was wondering, and suddenly the chest was pierced.
Mo Wuya withdrew the dragon tendon slash and shouted, "Fast forward to the tunnel." The woman got up from Mo Wuya's side, wept in terror and sorrow, and ran into the tunnel.
At this time, several corpse beast pawns appeared and attacked Mo Wuya. Mo Wuya was holding Zhan Chi in one hand, holding a dragon tendon chop in the other, and a little white ape by his side. Now the little white ape is chest-high and can walk and jump freely. Mo Wuya said: "Xiaobai, you follow your aunt, don't lose it, I'll teach you how to kill the enemy." When the little white ape heard this, he was very excited, jumping up and down, and jumping as high as he could.
Several corpse beast pawns attacked side by side to the halfway point, and suddenly dispersed, attacking from three directions. Mo Wuya said in his heart: "The carving insect skills, what can I do." I want to attack from different directions, and I don't want to think about it. I can slash faster than you. "Mo Wuya first aimed at the corpse beast pawn in the middle, wanting to start with the corpse beast pawn in front of him first, and then turn the dragon tendon to slash and eliminate the corpse beast pawn on the left and right.
However, the road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high. Mo Wuya unleashed the dragon tendon slash, stabbing straight into the chest of the corpse beast pawn in front of him like lightning. I saw that the corpse beast pawn did not dodge, as if he deliberately let the dragon tendon slash pierce his chest, and then grabbed the tip of the dragon tendon slash with both hands, pulled it hard, and at the same time rotated his body, wrapping the dragon tendon slash around his body.
Mo Wuya was taken aback when he saw this, he didn't expect that the corpse beast pawn would use his life to contain the dragon tendon slash. Mo Wuya was in a hurry, and increased his strength, and the dragon tendon slash kept changing shapes, constantly hitting the corpse beast pawn like a wave, trying to break free in order to deal with the other corpse beast pawns. Seeing that the corpse beast pawn was about to die, the dragon tendon slash was about to get rid of it, and at this time, two more corpse beast pawns came up, grabbed the dragon tendon slash together, and did not let go, and wrapped the dragon tendon slash around himself. The two corpse beast pawns were even more powerful, and they actually bit the dragon tendons with their teeth and slashed, and they didn't let go. And at this moment, several other corpse beast pawns were about to attack Mo Wuya's close body, and first attacked in the direction of the little white ape and Zhanchi. In a hurry, Mo Wuya used a set of chain legs, just like a windmill wheel, swept by the autumn wind, kicking the corpse beast pawn, making it impossible to get close, and protecting Zhan Chi and the little white ape from harm.
The little white ape was very happy when he saw Mo Wuya kicking the corpse beast pawn, chic and agile, and quickly transformed, so he learned Mo Wuya's appearance and spread it out. The white ape is born with divine power, and can fight against the holy bear Ao, even if it is a small white ape, its strength is several times higher than that of ordinary people. The little white ape used his flying legs, although there was no order, but his strength was outstanding, and he just kicked a corpse beast pawn, and kicked it dozens of feet away, knocking down a stone wall. When the little white ape saw it, he was even more happy, and flew up again, kicked another corpse beast pawn away, and hit a mulberry tree with a thick bowl mouth, breaking it.
Mo Wuya was very happy when he saw that the little white ape's kicks were so strong and fast, and he was so talented. said: "Auntie taught you a set of leg techniques, look at it." The little white ape nodded excitedly.
So, Mo Wuya held Zhanchi in one hand and the dragon tendon in the other, and his footsteps moved, as fast as flying lightning, leaping up and down, light and elegant. Every time the corpse beast pawn got close, he was kicked out several feet away. Mo Wuya said while kicking: "This set of legs is called - Thousand Leaps, which I learned from the jump of the ape in the mountains, and it is suitable for you." ”
The little white ape is rising more and more, and they are also practicing. "Thousand Leaps" originally came from apes, and the little white ape was more handy, and the moves became more and more similar, and even some jumping moves were better than Mo Wuya. The little white ape saw that Mo Wuya had a dragon tendon chop in his hand as a support, so he unloaded a leather rope from the corpse beast pawn, threw it out and tied it to a tree, as a rattan in the forest, and flipped and leaped in his hand, very sensitive. The leather rope was tied to the tree for a while, then tied to the doorpost, and then connected with Mo Wuya's dragon tendons to attack the corpse beast pawn.
Slowly, there were more and more corpse beast pawns lying on the ground, but there were more corpse beast pawns that had accumulated, they were surrounded by two white lights, fierce and vicious, with teeth and claws, but they couldn't attack it, and there were constantly corpse beast pawns being kicked out, crashing into nearby houses, falling to the ground, broken bones and tendons.
The corpse beast pawn that fell near was kicked out by Mo Wuya, and the one that fell in the distance was the power of the little white ape, which shows that the little white ape is really like a fish in water practicing this set of kung fu, making rapid progress, and coming out of the blue. This is also the first set of kung fu that the little white ape learned, and later, the little white ape slowly grew up, practiced in the ghost valley, and improved the "thousand leaps", and named it "flying ape leap".
At this time, there was a faint horn sound not far away, and the corpse beast guards heard it, and they all stopped besieging Mo Wuya and the little white ape, turned around and ran towards the main street of Caicheng, just in time to meet a team of Caicheng defenders who came to reinforce it. As soon as the two sides met, without saying a word, they fought fiercely. A veteran of Caicheng held Changge's blunt knife to parry a corpse beast pawn, and when he saw this corpse beast pawn with a familiar expression, he suddenly exclaimed: "Child, is it you?" The corpse beast pawn didn't react and continued to attack the veteran. Zihei, what's wrong with you, I'm your father, why did you become a corpse beast pawn? The veteran continued. The corpse beast pawn still ignored it, one knife after another, and the veteran soldier was just defensive, retreating step by step.
"Ahh The veteran screamed and fell to the ground, his right arm falling in a pool of blood not far away. The corpse beast soldier stepped on it, and slashed at the veteran's head with a swing of his knife. Suddenly, blood splattered, and a feathered arrow hit the heart of the corpse beast pawn. At the same time, a young soldier arrived and swung his sword to cut off the head of the corpse beast.
The old soldier lay on the ground, looked at the corpse beast and cried, "Don't, don't kill my son." The young soldier's face was full of blood and tears, and he said in a trembling voice: "Uncle, he is no longer a brother of Zihei, he is a corpse beast pawn." If you don't kill him, he'll kill you. Just now, I ...... I killed my brother, and he became a corpse. ”
"I can't bear it, I'm just such a son."
"Uncle, your son is dead. Hurry up, or we'll be corpses. The young soldier went over and picked up the veteran.
Most of the corpse beast pawns airdropped to Caicheng this time were the allied forces of various races who were killed in the battlefield, and their corpses were defeated by the enemy and applied a ghoul curse and turned into corpse beast pawns. Most of the soldiers of each clan are from the same clan, and the defenders of Caicheng and the surviving soldiers are mostly father-son brothers, and the prince sent them to completely defeat the psychological defense of the defenders of Caicheng, because he knows that the defenders of Caicheng are people, and the corpse beasts are corpses, and people have feelings, and they can't bear to kill their relatives in the face of their relatives, even if they are relatives who have become corpses. Even if someone kills their "loved one", they will have a nervous breakdown due to guilt, become unmotivated, and even commit suicide. At the same time, the enemy sent these corpse beasts into the city, and there was also a secret mission - to behead Cai Gongxiong and abandon the disease.
The corpse beast pawns divided a part to block the Cai Cheng reinforcements who came to them, and the other part went straight to the Cai Gongfu. At that time, there were only Xiong Qiji, Gongzi Xiong Jian and Ying Yi in the Cai Mansion. A small number of other soldiers had already fought with the corpse beasts who had arrived earlier, and in a short time, all of them were killed.
The corpse beast soldiers broke into the inner court, regardless of the old and the young, and killed people when they saw them. Xiong Qiji shouted in horror: "Jian'er, you go quickly, the corpse beast is the one who captures me." "Neither is Gongzi Xiong Jianjin, nor is he retreating, standing in place and hesitating. He really didn't want to die, but it was unfilial to leave his father and run away alone, and he would never be able to defeat the corpse beast with his own kung fu. Gongzi Xiong Jian could only muttered hatefully: "It would be nice if the shooting was at night." Seeing the corpse beast pawn attacking, Gongzi Xiong Jian hurriedly said, "Dad, what should I do?" He was completely panicked. Xiong Qi hurriedly said: "You take Princess Yingyi away, and I will block the corpse beast pawn first." As he spoke, he drew his sword. Gongzi Xiong Jian swayed, the six gods had no owner, and a word unconsciously popped out of his mouth: "Okay." Then he didn't call Ying Yi, turned around and was about to leave.
"Bastard, you stop me, take out your sword and kill me." Ying Yi shouted, drawing his sword and attacking the corpse beast pawn. Gongzi Xiong Jian vaguely agreed: "Okay." "Draw your sword too.
Childe Xiong Jian was the opponent of the corpse beast pawn, and after a few rounds, he was shocked to a corner of the garden and fainted. Ying Yi stopped the corpse beast pawn, and he had already struggled to hold on to more than a dozen moves. The people of Qin have been martial since ancient times, regardless of men and women, old and young, princes and nobles, everyone can practice a set of kung fu, and Ying Yi is of course no exception, and the swordsmanship is quite proficient. Even so, they only barely held on for a dozen rounds, and then gradually lost their strength and had no power to fight back.
Seeing this, Xiong Qiji endured the pain and went forward to help win Yi. Xiong Qiji was also a fierce general in Chu State, and was the right-hand man of King Chu Ling, Chen and Cai were obtained by Xiong Qiji's troops to capture them, so they were named Chen Caigong by the King of Chu, and handed over one-third of Chu's troops to him to command, which shows that Xiong Qiji's martial arts are not weak. But the level of martial arts depends on who compares, Xiong Qiji fought with the corpse beast pawn for more than 50 rounds, killed five corpse beast pawns, and then was kicked down by a corpse beast pawn who looked like a leader, and was about to be hacked to death when he saw the knife in his hand. At this time, Ying Yi flew and pounced, and hugged Xiong Qijian away before the knife fell, and Ying Yi's back was cut by the tip of the corpse beast pawn's knife, and his clothes broke a one-foot-long button, and blood immediately oozed out, revealing snow-white skin, stained red with blood.
Ying Yi snorted, and the long sword struck, piercing the neck of the corpse beast pawn. Xiong Qijian was very moved when he saw this, and he couldn't express it, so he immediately took off his coat and covered Ying Yi's back. Looking at Ying Yi's frowning and sad expression, Xiong Qijian gradually fell in love.
At this time, another corpse beast attacked him, and Xiong Qi said in his heart: "So far, my son doesn't know life and death, and the beauty in front of me was seriously injured to save himself, what else do I have to give up." Pity...... I fought it today. Raise your sword and rush at the corpse beast. When the two sides were about to face each other, a soft force pushed Xiong Qiji away, and at the same time, a fierce force shook the corpse beast pawn into the wall, smashing a hole. Looking at it intently, the person who came was standing in the middle, and it was Zhan Wuxi.
It turned out that Zhan Wuxian saw the corpse beast pawn airdropped into the city, and knew that there must be a plan. Zhan Wuxian took a pair of men and horses to hunt down the corpses and beasts in the city, and made sure to kill them all. When chasing to Cai Gong's mansion, he heard the sound of fighting inside, and Zhan Wuxian immediately felt that something was wrong, and it turned out that the corpse beast pawn entered the city with the intention of Cai Gongxiong to abandon his illness. The situation was critical, Zhan Wuxian used his escape technique, quickly entered the Cai Gong's mansion, and went straight to the place between Xiong Qiji and the corpse beast pawn, and rescued Xiong Qiji.
Zhan Wuxian saw that all the corpse beast pawns were gathered in the Cai Gong Mansion, and immediately grabbed a handful of red beans and spilled them all, dozens of red beans turned into dozens of red-clothed phantom warriors, and everyone held Changge in their hands, surrounding all the corpse beast pawns in the middle. Zhan Wuxian gave an order, and the red-clothed phantom warrior Chang Ge attacked, slashing and killing all the corpse beast pawns.
At this time, Xiong Qijian was in shock, thinking that for his own selfish desires, Cai Cheng was in danger, the soldiers and civilians were killed and wounded, he was almost killed, his son did not know life and death, and Ying Yi was seriously injured by the corpse beast in order to kill himself, and almost lost his life. Seeing Gongzi Xiong Jian lying in the corner, Xiong Qijian slowly crawled over and shook Gongzi Xiong Jian a few times, Gongzi Xiong Jianwu didn't wake up, thinking he was dead. Xiong Qiji's thoughts were suddenly discouraged: what King of Chu, what rights, what desires, everything is clouds, everything is dust, everything is not important, it only makes sense to survive and be with your relatives and the people you like.
Xiong Qiji suddenly walked up to Zhan Wuxian and said in horror: "Is it that the corpse beast soldiers have attacked the city?" What to do, what to do? How many more men do we have, and will they be able to resist it? Can't even the Divine Fire Soldiers? No, Mr. Zhan, your martial arts are strong, the enemy is most afraid of you, let's abandon the city and flee, we can't beat the corpse beasts. You take me, Yingyi and Jian'er, oh, by the way, and Mrs. Zhan and Mr. Zhan. I have saved a lot of money in the past few years, and as long as we leave the Chu State, we will be safe. I don't want to be the king of Chu anymore, who of them loves to be whom. Xiong Qi spoke incoherently, and muttered for a long time, even he didn't know what to say, and he completely lost his vigor as the prince of Chu and the prince of Cai.
Zhan Wuxian didn't wait for him to finish speaking, put a sword on Xiong Qiji's neck, and said: "You should not be the king of Chu, I can't care, you want to abandon the city and escape, then what should the people of the whole city do, you are the lord of the whole city, and the people are all looking at you." You only care about running for your life, and you are in danger, what face do you have to survive in the world. If you say that you will abandon the city and flee, I will kill you first with one sword. ”
The cold blade of the sword was attached to Xiong Qiji's erect neck, and a trace of coolness reached his nerves, Xiong Qiji fought a cold war, and his spirit suddenly cleared up a lot. He said in his heart: If you go and stay, you will die. Why have I worked so hard all these years? Isn't it the throne in the palace of the thin waist? At this point, Xiong Qiji's arrogance suddenly rose again, stood up and said, "My father lost his temper just now, Mr. Zhan forgive me." I've figured it out, I'm going to live and die with Cai Cheng, but Mr. wants to help me. ”
Zhan Wuxian hurriedly withdrew Long Yuan's sword: "Wuxian was reckless just now, and asked Cai Gongyuan to forgive you." Wuxian must help Cai Gong defeat Gongzi and defeat the enemy"
"Good. Is there anything I need to do, sir. ”
"Duke Cai only needs to sit in the mansion, appease the people, and stabilize the morale of the army." Zhan Wuxian said: "The corpse beast pawn who broke into the mansion just now is a few fish that slipped through the net, it seems that Gongzi wants to use the decapitation operation to attack Cai Cheng." ”
"It's really vicious enough to strike the enemy, but I'm his own uncle."
"Cai official business needs to be more careful. Senior Brother Fei will send a divine fire soldier to protect Cai Gong. Saying that, Zhan Wuxian gave Xiong Qiji five red beans and said, "If you encounter danger, throw these five red beans, and someone will protect you." ”
"Thank you, sir." Xiong Qiji looked at the five red beans in his hand, which were crystal clear, and asked, "This is the original body of the red-clothed phantom warrior?" ”
Zhan smiled and smiled, noncommittal.
At this time, Mo Wuya and a team of soldiers arrived. Zhan Wuxian saw his beloved wife and rushed forward. They are very affectionate, and when they don't see each other for a few days, they care about each other, and the two look at each other, affectionate as ever.
Mo Wuya said: "Your clothes are torn, I'll make up for you when you go home." ”
Zhan Wuxian said: "Okay! Look at your hair is messed up. As he spoke, he used his hands to comb his beloved wife: "The two little ones are okay" Zhan Wuxian stroked Zhan Chi and the little white ape with his hands.
"It's good, and it's obedient. The little white ape has learned a set of leg techniques! ”
"You've worked hard these days."
"It's not bitter."
"I'm not here these days, you have to take care of yourself."
"Well, you too."
"How are the people of the city?"
"All hidden, in the bunker." It is said to be a bunker, but in fact it is a relatively secret, larger ordinary cellar, and the entrance of the cave is blocked with stones.
Zhan Wuxian kept looking at Mo Wuya, and there was something in his heart that he wanted to say but couldn't say. Mo Wuya obviously saw through his thoughts, so he said, "Shirt, you can say anything." ”
Zhan Wuxian paused and said softly: "The situation outside the city is not optimistic, and there will be corpse beasts who will continue to sneak into the city, you have to be careful and take care of Chi'er and the little white ape...... If there is an extremely dangerous moment, I have no time to separate, you can walk with the child. ”
"I'm not leaving, I'll go wherever you are."
Zhan Wuxian lowered his head: "But I don't want you to be in danger." ”
"I don't want you to be in danger either." Mo Wuya is very determined.
Zhan Wuxian remembered the oath he and Mo Wuya had made: live in the same house and die together. So Zhan Wuxian said: "Okay, but promise me that you must live." ”
Mo Wuya nodded.
"Gong Cai, Princess Yingyi, and Gongzi Xiong Jian have all been injured, so let's put them in the bunker as well."
"I'm not going, my injuries are already healed, I'm going to supervise the war." Xiong Qiji obviously heard Zhan Wuxian's last words.
Zhan Wuxian glanced at him and said, "It's okay." Immediately, Zhan Wuxian asked the phantom warriors to carry Gongzi Xiong Jian and Princess Yingyi to the refuge bunker, and Mo Wuya took care of them in the bunker. At the parting, Xiong Qijian looked at Ying Yi from a distance, and his reluctance was difficult to express. Then, Zhan Wuxian ordered the soldiers in the city to continue to search for the corpse beast pawn who had slipped through the net, and then be sure to burn the corpse if they saw it.
Zhan Wuxian and Xiong Qiji arrived at the arrow tower at the city gate, and the defenders were waiting for them, especially the divine fire soldiers, who were even more majestic, standing neatly on the city wall, like rows of red flags. Before the arrival of Zhan Wuxian and Xiong Qiji, the Caicheng coalition army had already shot and killed the corpse beasts and tiger eaters who had attacked Caicheng, hung their corpses on the city wall, poured oil all over their bodies, and demonstrated to the enemy thirty miles away on the opposite side.
After fighting with the enemy, Zhan Wuxian and the others already knew something about the corpse beast pawns. Childe not only has an infinite circulation of lifeforms, but he also has the ability to resurrect corpses, resurrecting soldiers killed on the battlefield into corpse beasts. To crack the corpse beast pawn, you can only use fire to attack and burn the corpse of the corpse beast pawn to powder, so that it has no sustenance body to resurrect.
At this time, it was already night, and from a distance, the sword halberd of the enemy's military camp was like a forest, and under the blue fire light of the fire cloud pillar, it reflected thousands of cold lights, covering dozens of hills, and the sound of metal collision was faintly heard from it, and the number of corpse beasts was more than before.
On the contrary, on the upper floor of Caicheng City, it was as quiet as death, no one spoke, and no one knew what to say. Knowing that the enemy army is powerful and ferocious, it is so unusual. The defenders of Caicheng were uneasy in everyone's hearts, especially those who advocated escaping, and they regretted not falling, and some people resented Zhan Wuxian. And what they are most worried about is that they don't know what kind of monster will be released in the Childe Divine Fire Pillar. This dead silence and uneasiness in their hearts made the defenders of Caicheng almost unable to breathe. They don't know when the next attack will be, whether they will encounter the fathers and sons who died on the battlefield, whether they will be killed by them or will they be killed.
Xiong Qiji looked at the gloomy enemy barracks, he shuddered, he regretted coming to supervise the battle, and he had been thinking about Ying Yi's injury in his heart, anyway, she was injured by the corpse beast pawn for herself, but these Xiong Qiji did not show it, looking at the enemy camp and Zhan Wuxian, Fei Wuji and others to discuss the enemy situation. After some inspection, Xiong Qiji did not say a word to the people guarding the city. Fei Wuji and the others had already seen some clues, so they persuaded Xiong to abandon his illness and return to the city to recuperate. At the beginning, Xiong Qiji insisted on not leaving, and wanted to share the hardships with the soldiers defending the city, until Zhan Wuxian and others also came to persuade him, and Fei Wuji sent twenty more Shenhuo soldiers to escort him, and Xiong Qiji was reluctant to go back. Before leaving, Xiong Qiji said: "The heavy responsibility of defending the city depends on everyone, when I am away, the three armies are all under Mr. Zhan's orders, and all military affairs are decided by Mr. Zhan." ”